Thread: Galaxy GTX 470

It's a known fact that Nvidia's GeForce GTX 470 and 480 based GPUs heat up to a great extent. With over 3-billion transistors embedded into the GPU what more can you expect?

The Galaxy GTX 470 is a little different from the crowd since everything other than the GPU is customized by Galaxy. Moreover the redesigned PCB is also an inch smaller than Nvidia's reference design. Furthermore the card comes with a Flip fan design which allows you to clean the heatsink and the fan without having you to open up the shroud. The rear supports two dual-link DVI port along with a mini HDMI port.

Powering up the card is a 12-pin connector - a minimum 550 W PSU will be required to breathe life into this card. The core speeds have been bumped up to a small degree. What you get is a core operating at 625 MHz while the memory and shaders are clocked at 837 MHz and 1250 MHz respectively.

Crysis Warhead returned a playable score of 49 fps with the resolution kept at 1680 x 1050 (2xAA). Just Cause 2 also returned very playable frame rates of 48 fps at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 - this was achieved with AA disabled while still maintaining Very High settings.